David Sylvian (Ryuichi Sakamoto) - Brilliant Trees + [1984]

DAVID SYLVIAN - Brilliant Trees / Words With the Shaman / Bamboo Houses / Forbidden Colours (1982-1985)

Codec: mp3.
Description: MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3.
Bit rate: 320 kbps.
Sample rate: 44100 Hz joint stereo.
Tags: ID3V1 & ID3V2.
Source format: CD (trks 1-9 & 18-22 ADD, trks 10-17 & 23 AAD).
Number of tracks: 23.


Allmusic.com:
"For an album of only seven tracks, Brilliant Trees is an eclectic affair fusing funk, jazz, and ambient. Its best pieces are the moody jazz of "Red Guitar," the dusky atmosphere of "Weathered Wall," and "Brilliant Trees" itself, both of which feature the woozy trumpet of Eno collaborator and fourth-world pioneer Jon Hassell. The record also showcases guest players like Holger Czukay. Some CD editions also carry the three-part "Words With the Shaman" to make up a fuller album."

Wikipedia bio "Bamboo Houses"/"Bamboo Music":
"Bamboo Houses" is a song by Japanese musician and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and English musician, composer and singer David Sylvian, released on Virgin Records in 1982. The double A-side single "Bamboo Houses"/"Bamboo Music" was the first solo project by Sylvian, released while he was still a member of the band Japan. It was the second collaboration between the two, the first being the track "Taking Islands in Africa" on the 1980 Japan album Gentlemen Take Polaroids which featured Sakamoto on keyboards. The "Bamboo Houses" single in turn featured drums by Japan member Steve Jansen, who also appeared in the promo video, and was co-produced by Steve Nye.

Wikipedia bio "Forbidden Colours":
"Forbidden Colours" is a song composed by Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto with lyrics by English musician, composer and singer David Sylvian. The song is the vocal version of the theme from the Nagisa Oshima film Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (in certain territories retitled Furyo) and was first released on the soundtrack album. "Forbidden Colours", also issued as a duet single on Virgin Records in 1983, was the second collaborative single release by Sylvian and Sakamoto, following 1982's "Bamboo Houses". The title of the song and its lyrics reflect the main themes of the movie; the clashes between not only two countries at war but also two vastly different cultures, difficulties on both sides in accepting or even trying to understand the differences in mentality, the contrasting definitions of honour and shame, as well as the underlying homoerotic tension between the two main characters, Japanese Captain Yonoi (played by Sakamoto himself) and British war prisoner Jack Celliers (David Bowie), and the fine line between love and hate and consequently life and death - hence "my love wears forbidden colours". In 1984 the track was re-recorded and released as the B-side to "Red Guitar", the lead single to Sylvian's first solo album Brilliant Trees and was later also included as a bonus track on certain editions of his 1987 album Secrets of the Beehive."

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TRACK LIST
Brilliant Trees (1984)
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01. Pulling Punches

02. The Ink in the Well

03. Nostalgia

04. Red Guitar

05. Weathered Wall

06. Backwaters

07. Brilliant Trees

08. Red Guitar (7" Mix)

09. Pulling Punches (7" Mix)

10. Weathered Wall (Instrumental)

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Words With the Shaman (David Sylvian, Jon Hassell, Steve Jansen & Holger Czukay, 1985)
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11. Part I - Ancient Evening (Instrumental)

12. Part II - Incantation (Instrumental)

13. Part III - Awakening (Songs from the Treetops) (Instrumental)

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Bamboo Houses / Bamboo Music (David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto, 1982)
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14. Bamboo Houses (7" Mix)

15. Bamboo Houses (12" Mix)

16. Bamboo Music (7" Mix)

17. Bamboo Music (12" Mix)

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Forbidden Colours (David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto, 1983-84)
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18. Forbidden Colours (From soundtrack "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence", 1983)

19. The Seed and the Sower (Instrumental, Ryuichi Sakamoto, B-side 7" &
12" "Forbidden Colours", from soundtrack "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence")

20. Last Regrets (Instrumental, Ryuichi Sakamoto, B-side 12" "Forbidden Colours",
from soundtrack "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence")

21. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (Instrumental, Ryuichi Sakamoto, from
soundtrack "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence")

22. Father Christmas (Instrumental, B-side 7" & 12" "Forbidden Colours", from
soundtrack "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence")

23. Forbidden Colours (Version II) (David Sylvian, Ryuichi Sakamoto & Steve
Jansen, B-side 7" & 12" "Red Guitar" 1984)


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